THE NEW YORKER Latin at divinity schooL" "What do you think you'd like to do?" said the cap- tain. "Get out of the Army," said the recrui t Post Car 2 V IBRANTLY interested as we are in the postwar world, it was natural that we should attend the symposium recently held on the Hotel Pennsylvania Roof by the Society of Automotive En- gineers, on the topic "Cars of the Fu- ture." The good faith of the automotive engineers was manifested in one sen- tence of the leaflet they sent out an- nouncing this event: "Because of food .. d 1 " restrIctIons an manpower s 1ortages, it said, "there will be KG DINNER." In spite of the necessity of foraging for it-.- self, an audience of some three hundred turned up, predominantly male and ( we judged) completely automotive. At least, there were derisive snickers and subdued catcalls every time industrial designers "\.\7ere mentioned. One of the speakers, who worked with lantern slides, displayed a picture of a car that looked like a pale-green teardrop wept by a giant and remarked disparagingly, "Here we have the general trend of the airbrush designers." (Laughter.) Part of the industry refers casuaJly to the Car of the Future as the "post car." Postwar car, we gathered, al- though no specific explanation was of- fered. Post car 1 will be the first post- war model, it seems; then come post car 2, post car 3, and so on. Everybody is agreed that post car 1 will be no great shakes; it will be just whatever the n1anufacturer can turn out to meet the immediate demand and will look almost exactly like the 1 942 models. Post car 2 will be the big revolution- arv model, if the automotive engineers can ever get together and agree on what they're rebelling against, which they certainly were far from doing the night we heard them. SOlne engineers want air-cooled motors; S0111e don't. Some want rear motors; SOlne don "t. There is even a wet-blanket bloc which insists that by the time post car 2 COlnes out people will be using helicopters for all their long trips anyway, so it won't have to be a very good car. Our favorite speaker of the evening was a Mr. Olley, an Englishman, who urged the advan- tages of the small foreign car over the small American one. "Entry or exit by an ordinary human is undignified and ludicrous," he said, speaking of the doors of A111erican cars, and then went on to propose what sounded to 19 ,,,,, ,'-': ,.A!: ' f.,r1 wl-((rJ . ",,;::< r,; t ';:' > tJ ' '1$':,'""" . -:::;X. " ' .:....:.:....:.:::....:.:;.::::;;:::: ::.. :...... .N" ...v -:-:-0::: ".<' : ';.."'" '. ,.' ? .' ,:: :: .,.>/ " "'JJ :/ ':J , ' ", ', i ", <': t- , < : 'p ,{ : '" , ,{>,: ":' f " ,---' t' <: QOl(tE , :: ; ,1, h ' ,'j't!( ":=-" ,::, , , :. ::t f , , .,, i : ;..... ,:-: k::' , . ) - , V .#' -< ,, -, -: , , " -'. #' , '.. . '. ' . ''' , : : : :! $;::'" -t' j , :;' ::'::.:. :':\ 'J ;:J( {, 'i(.:... ',', ",,:,::::k ;" :'; , .' .;;;.t::.. :: . . . . oX ;::'; ::r: t' ::': :' ,:,::,',',......, , I:: \ ..: .. ..::.:'. .'t-:-:. ''' i..... , " i,i:::; /::i: \f- ;:,*;::\ ;i}: %. .... .:. it -::.:::: :,, < .:.$î . . : : : " , . , ', , " :,:' , : fj : W :::: C', ' , '.."',,'" ' ' ' f.j ";::,'"..".';< :,ti ..' i:% p :i;{: :,23 :'.' i!i ." "'-- , "" r . . ......... ..;:'. . . ........ : ... .-: .....,,.. . , , ' ;:. !.-::<",\;::;:':::: ,þ,' : " }. > %;:( . '., " ..'> . .': . '1.: .; .i =-::; . : :.-:': \f-t :,: ,,',': : :' g ::(. ;.... . -<- . .:'. : '; -" . . i- ì;;r>:':':;: ;;' )}:', " ,ti t:, ::I :': ' "I r' :ii 1 J: M . ..: -=}; .r;. f' ::'/:,;=i""7""," ":' : , ' :::':;:Jio/,<<, : ::,{l } t fÙ} , t: ..: ) :_' '. ;:. '- " ,,::,l,:' ::', :t , < :"," .:....r.::..::..... JL :;; , ,5, .\';.: :f. .t. "ct ((l-'/ze trouble i.s) 1 never seenz to n eet any thing- except nice g-irLs." . . us like a very practical approach to the problem: "Study of the size and shape of hUlnan beings and of the loca- tions and directions jn which they freely bend." One thing seems certain: the jeep, with, its versatile four-wheel drive, will be pro111inent in the postwar scene. The 111anufacturers are a little worried that the public will expect too much of it, having been taught by the newsreels to regard it as a sort of combinatiQll flying machine and motorized moun- tain goat, but the things it actually will do are i111pressive enough. A farm- er, for instance, can use it as a tractor, a truck, a chemical-sprayer, as Inotive power for other farm machinery, or as a trailer, snowplow, or bulldozer, or he can just pile all the kids in and go to the 1110vies on Saturday night. Jeeps would cost seven hundred dollars no\\" if you could buy them, but the price will prob- ably be down by the time they hit the civilian 111arket. Prize O NE of the three local television studios closed up shop about six months ago as a result of the manpower h()rtage and the lack of the necessary